I help guitarists of all levels approach the nylon string guitar and discover the exciting world of flamenco, classical, rumba, bossa nova, latin jazz, popular music and more.
My weekly videos feature song tutorials, technique drills and music theory lessons with hands-on improvisation practice.
I like to break things down step-by-step and get you playing as efficiently as possible!
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Guess this is what you do if you dont want to just use a pick. Alternate picking 👍
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Dear Scott, is a real pleasure to have met you here in KZread. Your tutorial and educational videos are the best. I've been playing guitar for about 4 years and lately starting with flamenco. It's been a game changer in the feeling of how I feel and create music. In just a couple of days your videos have helped me a lot in this, difficult- frustrating yet rewarding world of flamenco 🎉 Thank you so much. Namaste
Thanks!
Is that a Pavan Guitar from Tom Prisloe?
Yep. Flamenco negra
I stopped watching as soon as he mentioned the malagueña. There is no flamenco in this video.
Fact check: incorrect.
I will be watching this a few hundred times. Thank you for the lesson. I'll try to use it well.
Likes and Subbed. This opens up a rabbit hole for me. Thank you
Welcome to the rabbit hole.
Hier habe ich am meisten gelernt.
Cool…😊
Great teacher, no fluff
What a great progression
Okay and what if you have a normal person thumb?
Then don’t expect to be as good at classical guitar
This is the first time I've ever heard someone play "Autumn Leaves" in Bossa style. The rhythm works perfectly, and the chords and melody also fit perfectly with Jobim and all the other classic Bossa/Latin tunes we know so well. Maybe we should change the title to "Hojas De Otono" and make it official.
Very similar to slap bass, in the relationship between hammer on/off and thumb picked notes. Great exercise for building hand strength for each hand.
Not “very” similar, it’s the exact same technique applied to another stringed instrument.
I have always played the "Rumba" style and Classical Tremelo style but did not know of the other styles you are demonstrating. Amazing variations that all sound great. Especially 1 1/8 time! WTF?
Fantastic and very educational except for the reference to Segovia. Segovia's greatness for me has been totally destroyed after I learned that he was a prominent supporter of Franco and the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War. When I found this out, I was very disppointed to say the least. This is totally inexcusable for me, regardless of how great Segovia was in guitar history.
Wow, fantastic. I don't care what kind of music you play, if you are a serious guitar player you should look into this kind of stuff.
Awesome! I've never heard a nylon string arrangement of "Sleepwalk" before. You get five stars from me!
You get the Gold Medal for Outstanding Guitar Education. I just discovered your channel and this is one of the greatest guitar videos I've ever seen and I know you've got hundreds more.
Will this arrive in the mail?
I've listened to thousands of versions of "Autumn Leaves" from many top musicians on all instruments. I've played it on guitar in a "traditional" jazz standard way, and to my ear it often sounds really boring. I think it's because of the rhythm. I think your "bossa" version is the best way to play it, because the rhythm gives it life and movement. It even sounds like a famous bossa tune. I'm switching to your bossa version permanently, thanks.
Check out my much harder version somewhere on my channel here…
Sir my one question is is it seriously possible to learn flamingo style from youtube without any guide . I am a intermediate and I am playing only plecturm . But till 7/8 month practice classical style to show videos from youtube.
Flamenco is one of the hardest things you can do on a guitar! That said, you can learn a lot by watching and listening but it is good to have some feedback to know if you’re doing something wrong.
Thanks Scot found this very useful.
Great!
You’ve got that segovia thumb;)
That’s the nicest thing anyone has ever called it
You, sir, are awesome!
Thanks alot Scot I've been plugged in to your tutorials frequently over the last number of years and you've been teaching me quite alot, thought i'd just say I appreciate your time - energy - input thanks alot or as we say in Ireland " thanks a milllllion".
Great to hear!
Great video and thanks for the free PDF. After many years of playing different styles of guitar from blues to jazz to country, I finally discovered Bossa. I had heard many of the famous Bossa songs many times, but I didn't play them. Then I started to look into it seriously, and soon discovered how great Bossa is for guitar practice in every kind of way, no matter whether you play heavy metal, jazz, blues, country or rock etc. It's essential to use a looper, or record a rhythm track to play over. It's a great workout to play simple, clean, beautiful rhythm chords in perfect time for several repeats of the basic structures. Then it becomes another challenge to learn and play those beautiful, sophisticated melody lines over top (and try and remember them all!) Your timing has to be precise and your tone and intonation has to be really clean. It's excellent practice, musically educational, and personally satisfying. On top of these basic fundamentals for beginners/intermediate players, next step up are the challenges of advanced chord substitutions, improvisation, comping difficult rhythms at fast tempos, etc. There's no limits for even the greatest professional guitarists. Long live Bossa! (PS -- last but not least, singing the lyrics if you have a great voice or have a great vocalist to accompany).
Well said!
A rasgueado doesn't sound Spanish if it's in the wrong chord?? LOL...A perfectly performed rasgueado will always sound Spanish no matter the chord. You can perform it directly on the guitar box with no strings and it will still sound Spanish. Not knocking you since you seem like a good teacher. Just found it funny you should say that.
A major chord with a flat nine will instantly sound Spanish no matter how you play it, that’s the point of this video
Are you using a pic?
Yes, but see my gypsy jazz for nylon string tutorial where I show how to do all this with your fingers
Can you really call it phrygian? technically E phrygian start with a Eminor chord.If you take E phrygian dominant it starts with a Edominant 7 chord. But what is true is the phrygian flavour you feel between chord I and bii: 1/2 ton distance,this is the sound.I would call it flamenco scale .Adam del Monte made a very nice video about this topic.
Adam del monte‘s “Flamenco scale“ includes a flat 3rd with a major third and other color tones… If you used those notes in the chord you would get a jazzy/bluesy sounding chord like a dominant 7#9 … as I say in this video, it’s Phrygian dominant that you’re hearing in most Spanish sounding music, but it only manifests itself on the I chord (or you could call it the V cord if you like to think in the minor key)
Great content and clear explanations! Thanks so much for sharing.
Thank you 🙏
best guitar teacher ever , i learn a lot from you i'm watching almost all of your video and apreciate very helpful and i did progress really , i just wanted to write my respect ❤
Can give us the tabs please
New subscriber here☺️
Thanks for coming along!
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Class mike Scotland
Oh no, you used Gypsy Kings as an example. Ouch. Strike one.
Leyenda? : Asturias!
Each level is explained well supported with an excellent demo and good tabs. The levels progress in a logical manner and build nicely on each previous one. This is an outstanding training video.
What's the pattern here at 2:10? m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZXaG06Owd5XTYNY.html&pp=ygURbWkgYWJ1ZWxvIHB1ZW50ZXM%3D
Thank you. I love this song but the accompaniment was sooo boring. Not with this! Again, thank you.❤❤❤
Scott Tennant says hello ;)
is it the same rhythm as this song? kzread.info/dash/bejne/lpp4j7tplarWl9I.html
Later on in the song, yes
@@TheVersatileGuitarist thanks scot! is this covered in the gypsy jazz course?
No words for it. Shocked😅😅.
where can i see the whole video? it cuts out at the end
Very nice variations. In the transition between part 1 and part 2 of the song, I use a tresillo rasgueo instead of the one he uses in the book.
Chords at 2:58?
Em to B7/F#
VERY NICE, VERY PROFFESIONAL
Thank you!
10:00 just to confirm, that’s the first position of the natural minor scale? The natural minor scale can also be referred to as simply the minor scale right? (If that isn’t the first position, my bad, it might be the 4th actually lol)
Yes, the natural minor scale would be its full name just to be specific but most people call it the minor scale. Confusion can arise when you’re talking about the Dorian scale or the harmonic minor scale or the melodic minor scale or the Phrygian scale which are all types of minor scales. so you only need to say “natural minor” to be extra clear.
1st position or “open”
This is absolutely the best lesson I have ever seen on scale and chords improvising for Flamenco guitar. You are such a gifted teacher. Thank you for sharing.
Wow thank you 🤩
I looked at a few other lessons on tremolo before I came to yours. I had already subscribed about half way through before you brought it up. My next 2 guitar purchases will be a requinto and then a Taylor nylon string. I'm currently practicing on a 1/2 size that I restrung with a requinto set.
Thanks and welcome!